{"title":"Christina Quarles","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"of-our-spiritual-strivings-book-christina-quarles-9783753300603","title":"Of Our Spiritual Strivings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn affordable edition of a seminal African American text, illustrated by Christina Quarles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished with Afterall Books.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUpon its publication in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois' classic \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e made history as a work of sociological thought, and would go on to become a cornerstone of African American literature. In it, Du Bois combined history and memoir to advance a vital message of resistance in the dehumanizing context of the Jim Crow era. It was in this book that Du Bois, in the essay Of Our Spiritual Strivings, wrote of the double consciousness experienced by the Black subject--a sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. Refusing this fate, Du Bois passionately and creatively makes the case for the rights of Black people of the South to be treated with equality and justice.\u003cbr\u003eOver a century later, Los Angeles-based artist Christina Quarles (born 1985) brings new energy to Du Bois' unfinished project, speaking to his melodious text with her own distinctive vibrancies of color and line, testing and inverting the double consciousness idea. Like Du Bois, the central focus of her practice is to find political power in categories used to undermine particular populations.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49663066013969,"sku":"GOR012762376","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745109614865,"sku":"NGR9783753300603","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51061686468881,"sku":"NIN9783753300603","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52992275185937,"sku":"CIN3753300608G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3753300608.jpg?v=1751096069"},{"product_id":"christina-quarles-book-christina-quarles-9781636810324","title":"Christina Quarles","description":"In Quarles’ paintings, limbs, torsos and faces collide and merge with familiar domestic objects made strange through color and gesture  Published with Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.  Los Angeles–based artist Christina Quarles (born 1985) paints bodies that are subjected not only to the weight and gravity of the physical world but also to the pleasures and pressures of the social realm. Her work explores the universal experience of existing within a body, as well as the ways race, gender and sexuality intersect to form complex identities. Quarles, whose art is often considered in relation to her identity as a queer, cisgender woman of mixed race, is among the vanguard of artists who are upending the white-male-dominated art scene. This book features paintings and drawings from throughout Quarles’ career. Working mostly in acrylic, Quarles populates her canvases with polymorphous figures that reference her background in life drawing, but with an expressionist spin all her own. Her figures’ disconnected arms and legs break through a surface punctuated with bold patterns, textures and staccato markings.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50627631939857,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50627632627985,"sku":"CIN1636810322G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52126449697041,"sku":"NLS9781636810324","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1636810322.jpg?v=1751310639"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-christina-quarles.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}